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Old 10-17-2003, 05:16 PM  
tony286
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Actually Ace was a big fuck up , I worked at a Mercedes Benz dealership that had daloriens (I think thats how its spelled) before I got there and they talked about how Ace used wreck his car on a regular basis. I met Ace myself when I worked at a club called the country house on the border of CT. A waitress was a friend of his and he showed up one night. He hung out in a back where the service bar was, where I worked. He did mountains of coke and was drooling while rambling to me. THe band that was playing that night invited him up on stage to play. He was so fucked up ,he kept on playing things that had nothing to do with the song .So the sound man shut him off. Ace used to come to the briarpatch, a dive in a bowling alley in Brewster NY that had rock n roll bands. One band was playing and invited Ace up on stage,he was very fucked up. He finished the song and must of been having a kiss flash back because he smashed the kids guitar. So you had the lead guitarist crying and Ace with a dopey look on his face. I have to give him credit, he later made it up to the kid . Giving him pick of any guitar , in a room that had about 50 of them in it.

Actually Paul and Gene were very loyal to Ace and thats why they kept him and he didnt show up for lots of studio time.They encouraged him to write and to sing and he didnt want to do it.
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